As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.